If you haven’t yet joined the rechargeable battery charge, call into an Aldi and drop off your despicable dead batteries. At 8,000 tonnes in landfill a year, these heavy metal, harmful filled, household baddies need to be disposed of and recycled responsibly.

Donate your pre-loved working computer, tablet or phone to the Asylum Seeker Centre who’ll place it with an asylum seeker in need. By donating your device/s you’re helping someone study, seek work or simply keep family contact. Who wouldn’t want to be a screen-saver?

Don’t let your used car batteries be a dead weight on your eco-efforts. Take them to a Battery World who with their partners will safely and skilfully recover and repurpose its materials through their recycling program. This is one big positive for people and the planet.

This is a monster worth getting to know. Send in your as new, working or dead phone and they’ll not only pay you for your device, they’ll also make sure it gets recycled, reused or refurb’d.

We’ve all got a few; mobiles no longer fitting or fashionable for today. Clean out that lawless box of seasoned phones, charges and accessories by dropping them off for recycling at Mobile Muster points found at your local telco retailers, libraries and community centres.

Take Ctrl and start giving a Shift. With a practically tech-no-limits policy, Officeworks want you to bring back all your broken, unbroken and no longer needed home office technology. A work-place for e-waste, drop off your wares at one of their recycling points in-store.

Got gadgets gathering dust? Connect with The Reconnect Project. They’ll accept mobiles, laptops and tablets of all kinds, securely erase, repair and clean them and tee them up with people in need with the help of support agencies. Here’s to old devices finding new purpose!

RecycleSmart works with local councils to divert household e-waste from landfill. No matter watt you’ve got; alarm clocks, hair dryers, waffle makers (we’ve all been there), they’ll pick-up your e-goods and voila - get them processed into new products like asphalt, building products and batteries.